Nurses

Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears.

Sue White

Sue is our senior nurse and team manager at Patford House. Sue looks after the management of chronic diseases and provides cervical cytology, female health and contraception advice as well as dressings to wounds and leg ulcers. Sue is responsible for diabetics and coronary heart patients working closely with the doctors in these areas. Sue is a student nurse mentor.

Mandy Watts

Mandy is one of our Practice Nurses and runs Minor Illness Clinics.

She is also our Carer's Lead, running regular clinics for those who care for sick, frail or disabled family and friends. Mandy is a student nurse mentor.

Administration

Helen Strevens Practice Manager, Patford House Partnership

The practice manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Anna Rushowski - Deputy Practice Manager

Glenda Cobb

Kay France

Sue Hart

Karen Randall - Medical Secretary

Joanne Strevens

Alison Whitehall/Heather Wickson - Finance

Steph Coulson - Our Care Coordinator is role which aims to enable frail, elderly or other vulnerable people stay in their own homes at time of increased difficulty or deteriorating health. The Care Coordinator also assists those people who have recovered from an illness get back to their own homes as soon as possible.

Care Coordinators work with community nursing teams, the local council and voluntary sector groups supporting patients, their families and carers to better manage living with long term illnesses at home.

Reception

Sue Mills - Reception Manager

Anne Sayers

Rachel Adderley

Debbie Strevens

Julie Penney

Kirsty Law

Lisette Clydesdale

Lesley Poulton

Joanna Mackenzie

Receptionists provide an important link for patients within the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses.